Women & Obesity Forum

Researchers - mark your calendar to join CWHR and CDTR for a multidisciplinary forum on Women & Obesity. Spend the morning actively participating in presentations. In the afternoon, create the framework for innovative research within a team environment.

The Women & Obesity Forum is designed to provide attendees with a look at the current state of research around Women and Obesity. Gaps in research will be identified and participants will be charged with developing transdisciplinary teams via work group sessions. These teams will come away from the forum with a framework for innovative grant submissions based on, but not limited to, the three overarching conference themes:

Women and Children Across the Lifespan

Obesity and Diabetes Prevention

Community Engagement and Sustainable Interventions

The forum will be broken into two sessions at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. The morning will consist of four speakers with an opportunity to vote on topics. A panel of experts will then round out the morning session.

The afternoon session will focus on work groups creating their framework. The invited speakers and panel experts will provide support and guidance throughout.

In the weeks following the forum, organizers will maintain contact with the work group and provide opportunities and resources.

Speakers:

Janine Clayton, MD

Director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health

Matthew Gillman, MD, PhD

Director, Harvard Obesity Prevention Program

Deborah Tate, PhD

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Health Behavior and Director of the UNC Weight Research Program